Fenrir Enterprises
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The black on my R220 has finally died and I can't get it to come back at all. No bands, nothing coming out. I figure either the suction has finally failed due to all the dried pigment ink gumming up the inside of the printer and the head is dead due to printing while empty. It has performed admirably up to now, but I think it is finally dead. It hasn't actually printed a lot but I think it had one too many downtimes and possibly a head running dry once or twice. Several of the sponges (the ones directly under the printhead run area) inside are ruined from pigment ink drying on them and it's generally a complete mess.
I have a brand new R220 that hasn't ever been used. I'm hoping the "null ink" it's shipped with hasn't dried in the printhead. I've had a lot of minor issues with my printer ever since I started refilling, and while I know there are a lot of threads about this, I want to know what you all think would be the best method to use:
How would you create a waste tank? I've tried several methods, velcro, taping, etc, and all of them have managed to end up in spills once in awhile. At one point the wall behind the printer got sprayed with ink, which was strange because the tank had just been cleaned and it looks more like high pressure fluid came out from the waste tank, but I've never seen it come out strongly before. Is there an aftermarket waste tank attachment that is popular?
Who makes the best refillable carts for an older printer like this? I don't want to mention my current supplier from the start, because overall I've had good experiences with them, but 3 years ago I bought 2 sets of cartridges with auto-reset chips. One I used with cleaning solution. The other I kept empty. Until this year, I always pulled the cartridges and reset them because I was afraid of running the tanks dry. I got tired of it taking 2-5 days for the ink to "stabilize" and stop banding, etc, every time I pulled the tanks out and put them back in. I swapped to the spare set of auto-reset carts... and they did not work. The printer refused to recognize them. I ordered another set, and they worked, but I have had problems: The printer is shared on the network. It's directly plugged into one computer. Randomly, print jobs sent from network laptops would fail to print. They would show up in the queue as "printing" but they would not work. I thought maybe a print had to be done from the computer in order to bypass the "you are using aftermarket carts" that pops up every so often, but this did not solve the problem. It would simply randomly refuse to print, and I would have to manually delete the spool and reset the computer in order to be able to network print again. The black cart would reset all the time, while the color carts would not. Also, if I do pull the carts out, the ink drips out of them quite rapidly, so I think they do not have good seals underneath. I imagine there is not much effort put into making the R200/series refillable carts anymore, but does anyone with more experience in buying multiples have a preferred supplier for these? And has anyone ever encountered the sharing problem?
I'm really considering not even bothering and buying a Workforce 1100 or a Stylus Photo 1400 but I worry about the inability to reset the waste tank counter and I really don't have room for it anyway. I need to be able to use pigment inks because I print waterproof signs on vinyl.
I have a brand new R220 that hasn't ever been used. I'm hoping the "null ink" it's shipped with hasn't dried in the printhead. I've had a lot of minor issues with my printer ever since I started refilling, and while I know there are a lot of threads about this, I want to know what you all think would be the best method to use:
How would you create a waste tank? I've tried several methods, velcro, taping, etc, and all of them have managed to end up in spills once in awhile. At one point the wall behind the printer got sprayed with ink, which was strange because the tank had just been cleaned and it looks more like high pressure fluid came out from the waste tank, but I've never seen it come out strongly before. Is there an aftermarket waste tank attachment that is popular?
Who makes the best refillable carts for an older printer like this? I don't want to mention my current supplier from the start, because overall I've had good experiences with them, but 3 years ago I bought 2 sets of cartridges with auto-reset chips. One I used with cleaning solution. The other I kept empty. Until this year, I always pulled the cartridges and reset them because I was afraid of running the tanks dry. I got tired of it taking 2-5 days for the ink to "stabilize" and stop banding, etc, every time I pulled the tanks out and put them back in. I swapped to the spare set of auto-reset carts... and they did not work. The printer refused to recognize them. I ordered another set, and they worked, but I have had problems: The printer is shared on the network. It's directly plugged into one computer. Randomly, print jobs sent from network laptops would fail to print. They would show up in the queue as "printing" but they would not work. I thought maybe a print had to be done from the computer in order to bypass the "you are using aftermarket carts" that pops up every so often, but this did not solve the problem. It would simply randomly refuse to print, and I would have to manually delete the spool and reset the computer in order to be able to network print again. The black cart would reset all the time, while the color carts would not. Also, if I do pull the carts out, the ink drips out of them quite rapidly, so I think they do not have good seals underneath. I imagine there is not much effort put into making the R200/series refillable carts anymore, but does anyone with more experience in buying multiples have a preferred supplier for these? And has anyone ever encountered the sharing problem?
I'm really considering not even bothering and buying a Workforce 1100 or a Stylus Photo 1400 but I worry about the inability to reset the waste tank counter and I really don't have room for it anyway. I need to be able to use pigment inks because I print waterproof signs on vinyl.